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Board of Visitors Reviews
Campus Construction
Anderson Gallery Features
Works by Former F~culty-Artist
yeu to Participate
in American Heart vValk
Chamber Orchestra
Unveils 1999-00 Season
High School Students Participate
in Summer Research Program
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Ophthalmologist Receives
LASIK Research Grant
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Service Learning Campus Calendar
Au gust 30, 1999
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Four Faculty
to be Honored
at Convocation
by Pamela Lippincott
U ni\"(· r.~ ;t, · News St'f\"i(;t'S The cOllhilHltiOIlS off{H1I" f~lC­lllty
memhers to Virginia
C()Il1Jl1ollwealtll U niversi ­ty's
cO Jlllnitments to te aching,
scholarship, service and ove rall
excellell<.:e will he honored dur­ing
this -,'ear's COIl \'()(:ation cere­llH
l ll\'.
~rhe h'ollorees .. lre Rohert L.
Balster, Ph.D., School of Medi­cillt-"
Unh'e rsity Award of Excel­lence;
Patlicia H. Duncan, Ph.D.,
School of EducatioJl. D istin­guished
Tec.lChing Awanl; .Ioseph
II. Seipel, M.F.A. , School of the
f\rts, Distinguished Service Award;
and Z. HellO Vlahccvie, M.D. ,
Sch()()1 ()rMe(Hcine. Distinglrished
Scholar Award.
T he awards will he present­(:'
d during VCU's 1999 Convoca­tion
Oil Sept. H in the Pe rf<Jrln ing
Arts Center. President Eugene P.
Trani also will de liver his annllal
benlty address. The program will
hegin at 4 p.m.
The hOllorees reflect the
diversity of I~H..'ulty roles and con­hihutions
across VCU:
• Director ofVCU's Institute
Sec CONVOCATION Jlage 2
Moving
Day
Students began moving into residence
halls on both Virginia Commonwealth University campus­es
on Aug. 21 for the 1999·00 school year. Above, Linda
Robinson, the mother of an incoming freshman, proudly
displays a T-shirt given to her by Staff Senate members
who answered questions and passed out 1,000 shirts.
Right, two freshmen from Virginia Beach wait with their
belongings for help to move into their new rooms.
NASA-VCU to
Plan Health
Care Delivery
for Space
by Mar cia Meredith
Unive r sity News Service s A1rospace experts, govern­ment
and industry leaders,
. nd university researchers
and doctors from across the coun­try
are joining to launch a new
NASA commercial space center
that will change the way health
care is delivered in space and on
earth.
The
new center,
known as
the Med­ical
Infor­matics
and
Technology
A pp lica ­hons
Con­sortium
(MITAC),
was established at Virginia Com­monwealth
University to explore
new technolOgies that can be used
to deliver he alth care in remote
and extreme e nvi ronmen ts and
on future sPace missions. MITAC
board members met for the first
time on Aug. 9 and 10 at YCU to
discuss the upcoming year's pro-
See NASA page 6
VCU Honors 'Patron Saint' of Arts
by Ky r a Sc a rton Newman
Uni versity News Se rvices
\!:rgi ni tl Comrnonwealth U niversity'~ "patron saint" of
the alts received glOwing tributes from the commu­nity
as she cele brated her 100th birthday earlier
this month.
Theresa Pollak marked the day
said Pollak, speaking from a parlor at her Westminster-Can­terbury
home, "And I say 'growing up' hecause it has been
a process of growing up."
"Thank you for your appreciation of me and whatever
I've done. This is a glOriOUS occasion, an occasion that cele­brates
accomplishments in my work and hy many people,
not just me,"
Pollak shared credit for the birth
with accolades from civic leade rs,
arts educators and countless friends.
The City of Richmond proclaimed
Aug. 13 as 'Theresa Pollak Day," and
YCU unveiled a special commemo­rative
poster featuring a 1930 paint­ing
by Pollak.
"It's been a wonderful time
growing up in Richmond, And I
say 'growing up' because it has
been a process of growing up,"
of YCU's Arts School - which she
led for 40 years - with Henry H ,
Hib l ,s, the first director of what
became the Richmond Professional
Institute, "He was a man of great
vision and saw that a major school
of arts would be a great addition," she
For Pollak, the day represented the culmination of a
lifetime in the arts. What began as a Single 20-student stu­dio
art course offered by Pollak in 1928 grew into the nation's
largest public arts and design p rograms: VCU's critically
acclaimed School of the Arts,
"Ifs been a wonde rful time growing up in Richmond,"
said, "He never interfered with me.
I was perfectly free to do what needed to be done in the job."
Pollak's imprint on the curriculum and her students
remains a living legacy. "She was a very tough teacher, by
all reports," said Richard Toscan, dean ofvCu's School of
See POLLAK page 4
'Patron saint' of the Arts Theresa Pollak receives a tribute from
Richmond Mayor Tim Kaine. Other congratulatory wishes came
from President BiU Clinton, veu President Eugene P. Trani and
other members of the community.